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Educated at Monmouth School and Hertford College, Oxford , he was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship in modern history at Lincoln College in 1969, becoming a tutorial fellow in 1970. He was a University lecturer from 1971 to 1994, being elected a Reader in modern history in 1994 and a professor of modern history in 1996. Having served as a member of the Humanities Research Board from 1995, he was appointed chairman and chief executive of the new Arts And Humanities Research Board in 1998, a post he held until 2000, when he returned to Oxford to take up the Rectorship of Lincoln College. He has been a fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 1979, a fellow of the British Academy since 1993 and was made an honorary fellow of Hertford College in 2000. In 2002, the University Of Sheffield awarded him an honorary D.Litt. . He married Margaret Edwards in 1970 and has one son, Hugh. |